An Egyptian turquoise glazed composition shabti for the Overseer of the Royal Fleet, Psamtek-mery-Ptah
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis, circa 570-526 B.C.
Wearing a tripartite striated wig and plaited false beard, the face finely-modelled with extended eyelines and brows, holding a pick, hoe and the rope of the seed bag in his crossed hands, the seed bag falling behind his left shoulder, the body inscribed with ten horizontal incised rows of hieroglyphs from Chapter Six of the Book of the Dead and naming the owner, 18.7cm high注脚Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 26 April 1994, lot 227.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

See H.D. Schneider, Shabtis, part II, Leiden, 1977, p. 181, no.5.3.1.14 for references to the current whereabouts of other parts of the funerary equipment of Psamtek-mery-Ptah, an admiral of the fleet under the pharaoh Amasis. His tomb was at Saqqara, and his canopic jars are at the Louvre, while his shabtis are dispersed in museums worldwide.